Carta dei Prodotti Alimentarii delle Provincie Continentali del Regno delle Due Sicilie...
| Reference: | S43770 |
| Author | Benedetto MARZOLLA |
| Year: | 1856 |
| Zone: | Southern Italy |
| Printed: | Naples |
| Measures: | 435 x 535 mm |
| Reference: | S43770 |
| Author | Benedetto MARZOLLA |
| Year: | 1856 |
| Zone: | Southern Italy |
| Printed: | Naples |
| Measures: | 435 x 535 mm |
Description
Lithograph, 1856, signed at bottom.
Beautiful example, on contemporary paper, finely hand-colored.
Benedetto Marzolla's Carta dei prodotti alimentarii delle Provincie Continentali del Regno delle Due Sicilie [map of the foodstuffs of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies] (1856) is an important resource for territorial government in pre-unification southern Italy. Based on information from the Ministry of Annona available in the mid-19th century, it shows the typical productions of the Kingdom with an effective iconographic synthesis.
Figurative and realistic symbolism is depicted there: pigs, hares, bunches of grapes, chickens, sheep, fish, farm animals, baskets of fruit and other foodstuffs entirely cover the paper and its shores. So did the cultivation of rice, a cereal no longer found in the Mezzogiorno. Until the mid-19th century, rice cultivation was widely practiced in some areas of the Kingdom, from the lower Garigliano valley, in the area between Torre Annunziata and Castellammare, in Abruzzo Citra and Calabria Citra, but later it was slowly abandoned as a result of land reclamation works. The map also reports processed products, which were one of the most important items in the Kingdom's economy in those years and also a sign of nascent industrialization. It is a unique map of its kind and of which there is no equivalent in other Italian states of the time.
Benedetto Marzolla (Brindisi 1801 - Naples 1858), in addition to being a talented cartographer and topographer, was also a member of the Statistical Commission of the Kingdom of Naples, which operated within the Ministry of the Interior. In that office, where he was appointed statistical editor in 1852, he had access to geographic data and a great deal of territorial, economic and administrative information, which he used in the drafting of maps of the provinces of the Kingdom of Naples. His maps therefore, in addition to being of great accuracy and detail, are also rich in historical, economic and administrative information.
Marzolla "...invented, it is the case to say, a new way of understanding and drawing maps by providing an absolutely original vision of the communication of geographical data through the combination of text and image." (cf. V. Valerio).
Bibliografia
Conti S. (2008), L’agroalimentare nel Regno delle Due Sicilie in una carta di Benedetto Marzolla, in: Castiello N. (a cura di), Scritti in onore di Carmelo Formica, Univ. degli Studi Federico II, Dip. di Analisi dei processi ELPT, Sez. Scienze Geografiche, Napoli, pp. 249‑258; S. Siniscalchi, La carta “alimentare” di Benedetto Marzolla (1856) fra prodotti tipici e risorse territoriali, in “Bollettino della ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA di CARTOGRAFIA”, 2019 (167), 68-78; Valerio V. (2008), Benedetto Marzolla. Brindisino, Geografo e Cartografo dell’800 Europeo.
Benedetto MARZOLLA (Brindisi, 1801 - Napoli, 1858)
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Designer surveyor and lithographer, and cartographer, geographer and member of the Commission of Statistics, Ministry of Interior. Character of great importance in the Neapolitan and Italian maps of the nineteenth century, Marzolla won awards and certificates in public life for the cartographic production of high quality. His reputation has slowly dissolved after death, it should be observed that only the lack of a strong political involvement in the Risorgimento and the sense of literary value in his work not made him famous contemporaries such as Francesco Costantino Marmocchi (1805-1858) and Attilio Zuccagni Orlandini (1783-1872), with which it can certainly deal with. Cultural projects and educational publishing Marzolla were and remain extraordinary modernity, he invented, it is appropriate to say, a new way of understanding and to draw the map, providing a totally original data communication through a combination of geographic text and image. With this, he managed to merge into a single work, history, geography, economics, statistics and maps, reaching an equilibrium graph with outstanding performance.
(Cfr. by V. Valerio, Benedetto Marzolla Brindisi,Geografo e Cartografo dell' 800 Europeo, Brindisi 2008)
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Benedetto MARZOLLA (Brindisi, 1801 - Napoli, 1858)
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Designer surveyor and lithographer, and cartographer, geographer and member of the Commission of Statistics, Ministry of Interior. Character of great importance in the Neapolitan and Italian maps of the nineteenth century, Marzolla won awards and certificates in public life for the cartographic production of high quality. His reputation has slowly dissolved after death, it should be observed that only the lack of a strong political involvement in the Risorgimento and the sense of literary value in his work not made him famous contemporaries such as Francesco Costantino Marmocchi (1805-1858) and Attilio Zuccagni Orlandini (1783-1872), with which it can certainly deal with. Cultural projects and educational publishing Marzolla were and remain extraordinary modernity, he invented, it is appropriate to say, a new way of understanding and to draw the map, providing a totally original data communication through a combination of geographic text and image. With this, he managed to merge into a single work, history, geography, economics, statistics and maps, reaching an equilibrium graph with outstanding performance.
(Cfr. by V. Valerio, Benedetto Marzolla Brindisi,Geografo e Cartografo dell' 800 Europeo, Brindisi 2008)
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